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Re: AS_INIT_GENERATED [was: AS_VAR_ARITH]


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: AS_INIT_GENERATED [was: AS_VAR_ARITH]
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:57:34 +0100
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Eric Blake wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini <bonzini <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
>>> We probably ought to change the API of AS_INIT_GENERATED to actually take 
> the 
>>> filename of the child script, so that we can swap between quoted and 
> unquoted 
>>> here-docs at will, rather than the current interface where 
> AS_INIT_GENERATED is 
>>> only a snippet that must occur in a quoted heredoc.  That way, we can also 
>>> subsume the recommendation about starting the child script with #!$SHELL 
> rather 
>>> than #!/bin/sh.  We haven't released an autoconf version with 
> AS_INIT_GENERATED 
>>> yet, so we are still free to improve this API.
>> This should be done first.
>>
> 
> How does this look?

Seems okay, thanks for beating me to it.

Paolo




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